Echoes In Blue

Echoes In Blue Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I comfort you
In the moment you regret
You wallow in your shallow pool
Of imagined despair
I’m reaching through the blue
Hoping you'll forget
But nothing comes undone
The madness it all rings half true
In blue
You won't forget it
You won't forget it
You won't forget it
You won't forget it

[Verse 2]
I longed for the other side
In the setting hour
But shame pulls me under like a leaden gown
So I stay with you
In the ebbing tide
Another hour in the fading light

[Chorus]
Oh sadly I pretend
To believe your hurt is real
Oh every thought I have is critical
I'm reaching through the fragile blue despite
The voices in my head
That tell me you are gone and there's nothing more

Through all this
Through all this
I've kept my memories of the days
Before this
Before this
When we were blind but less afraid

[Verse 3]
But here we are
In the dead of night
Still treading on without an end in sight

[Chorus]
Oh sadly I pretend
To believe your hurt is real
Oh every thought I have is critical
I'm reaching through the fragile blue despite
The voices in my head
That tell me you are gone and there's nothing more

[Outro]
All I hope is that you will
Make it through the night
Better that you're leaving now
You're better in the light

All I hope is that you will
Make it through the night
Better that you're leaving now
You're better in the light

All I hope is that you will
Make it through the night
Better that you're leaving now
You're better in the light

All I hope is that you will
Make it through the night
Better that you're leaving now
You're better in the light

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What have the artists said about the song?

In an interview with the Independent, lead singer Jack Bourke told about lyrical component of the song:

I wrote the lyrics for “Echoes In Blue” during a particularly intense period of my life – we were finishing the record right around the time I was supposed to be getting married and we were all trying to keep our day jobs so we were doing most of the recording on evenings and weekends.

Also, Bourke shared the process of writing the interplay between the drums and bass line in the final section of the title track alongside with his bandmate, the drummer Lee Armstrong.

That was very difficult for us to write. By the time we finished it, we were mentally exhausted, which is a touch ironic given our focus was to make the part feel hypnotic and effortless.